Blue Strawberry

     Ah I love this one. Anther work expanding off of Do. A cloud is happily raining on Blue Strawberry. Is Blue Strawberry blue because it is sad or because he is just blue? No body knows... but he is definitely sad because of the cloud. The moon just watches. I experimented with faces a bit more again- love the cloud haha.
     This was micron pen and watercolor on a sketchbook page. I like the coloring and the sketchy lines. Was definitely fun to do.

DoReMi

     I drew these after the original Do. I really wanted to expand on the big toothy faces and whimsical themes. The result: DoReMi. Prisma color pencils and micron pen on office labels. I never ended up sticking them anywhere because they just look so complete when they're together.
     Do is redone with the same theme as the original Do, but it's more complex. There are more metallic objects, more stairs, and the swirly things were pushed to the right. I think it's a better composition, but I will always love the original.
     Re is running over the skinny guy who has no name... I must give him a name sometime. Has those swirlies again, but as smoke from the wheel. Re's face is a bit different from Do's, the way the mouth is drawn is inverted and the eyes are circles. The skinny guy is just hilarious on his own. Look at that mouth, arharhar.
     I wasn't sure what to draw for the third label. Sean gave me some ideas to work with. Thanks Sean :P. The idea of Mi is like he's been pushed down a well, but Mi is so cool with his shutter shades  that he turns it into a dive like Superman. The inside of the well changes into a mysterious land. That is one mad moon.

Do

     I'm going to be posting some of my older works. Most of it is stuff I do out of class because I freaking like to. They're usually my favorites as well.
     Did you see the three panel picture at the top? I don't know how you can miss it. Anyways, they're characters based of this little guy; the original Do (doh). I was wrapping my brothers math book with a paper bag and decided to leave my mark, lol. So, I came up with this and pasted it on the spine. It's quite whimsical and just makes me smile when I see it.

Sketchbook 6: Elephant Ears

     Daily college sketchbook. Sketchbook 6: Elephant ear leaves. Charcoal. These leaves are everywhere on campus, but for some reason I decided to go to the ones in the engineering building. When I got there I started sketching and noticed some guy on the second floor staring at me Like what I was doing was weird. He knew I knew he was staring too... was very awkward so I just left with an outline and shaded from memory. That's why it doesn't look real haha, but it looks nice none the less *_*. Such bold lines; I love it. I tried to to shade the dark parts nicely then do a bold highlight at first, but it slowly turned into smooth gradients. I guess it's just a habit of mine.
     Also, it's sketchbook 6 because I'll be skipping some sketches.

Sketchbook 4: Ficus

     Daily college sketchbook. Sketchbook 4: Ficus Tree. Graphite pencils. I really tried to cut down on time as you can see. Oh it's so ugly... I can live with it. Went from a realistic style with the other sketches to a style... I don't know what you'd call this. I guess it's more focused on form. Used hatching to show the curves of the tree, darker lines on the trunk closer to me. The leafy area sucks. I think having a darker background would have made this much better. I think this one was 1 hr. It started raining when I was drawing i-i.

Sketchbook 3: Laces

     Daily college sketchbook. Sketchbook 3: Laces of knee high boots. Graphite pencils. It's a drawing of the top half of one of my shoes. I intended to draw a full picture of both shoes, but I had some problems with proportions. So... here's some laces :D. Similar style to the previous sketches, though it has no reflective surfaces (other than the eye-lets), huzzah.This one took maybe 2 hrs or something like that. Still too long... I don't know if I'll be able to get the time down. Didn't shade in a black background like there really was, but I needed to save time and shading large areas of black with a pencil is a pain.

Sketchbook 2: Staplers

     Daily college sketchbook. Sketchbook 2: Staplers. Materials: graphite pencils. It's pretty similar to the first sketchbook in terms of style, shading and such. I tried to finish it quicker, but it was still pretty long- 4 hrs. I was too lazy to draw the wood grain on the table.

Sketchbook 1: Still Life

     Daily college sketchbook. Sketchbook 1: still life of glass vase with glass pebbles and sticks on cloth. Materials- graphite pencils. I went overboard with this first sketch. Although I like how it turned out, it took way too much time to complete for something that needs to be done daily. Approximately 7 hours of just drawing. The time also affected how I drew this because my main source of light was natural light coming from a window, so as the sun set, the way it reflected on the glass changed. I quickly sketched where the reflections should be, but I had to shade some parts from memory rather than observation.

Mighty Mugg Entry- Cursed Knight

     This is my Mighty Mugg entry for stage 2 of the Maplestory Mighty Mugg design contest. I decorated it as the Cursed Knight/ Ice Knight. I included some of the photos I took to show the stages it went through from beginning to end.

     When I was deciding how to decorate the Mugg, I first looked at what would suit its shape. The Muggs are quite bulky, so I decided not to decorate it as anything female, delicate, etc. I wanted to make the Cursed Knight or Ice Knight as it's mostly recognized as because (in my opinion) the Muggs are more suited for superhero type designs, although the Ice Knight may be more of a villain.

     After deciding on the Ice Knight, I already had some ideas that I knew I wanted to incorporate. One of those ideas and my most favorite was to use an LED light for the flame on its helmet. I also had in mind how I wanted to make the cape along with the fuzz and chain. I'm glad that I was able to complete it as how I imagined (which almost never happens for me :P).

     Working on this was very fun, but did come with its challenges. Painting in the body and armor went pretty smoothly. I only had problems with how I was going to paint the waist because it's stick thin in the game. I decided to just paint the sides of the Mugg darker to create the illusion of it being at least somewhat thinner. My biggest problem was finding an LED to light the flames. I don't have any experience with electronics- even with the aid of tutorial videos, I wasn't sure how to fit all the components inside the flame without the light being too high or too noticeable. My dad helped me out with this. He had this head strap sort of thing that had an LED light on it for when you work in dark areas like the light on a miner hat. He took it off for me and removed the plastic dome lens to make it less bulky. I was able to set it on the top of the Muggs head, securing it with superglue and clay. You can turn it on and off too :D.

     Materials used: white primer spray paint, acrylic paint, glow in the dark paint (for the face), matte spray finisher, air dry clay, pom poms, gold ringlets & brads, black thread & fabric, wooden dowel, LED light, white tissue paper, and superglue.

Unfinished Sketch

     This is a redo of a sketch I made on my math book cover. I still haven't finished it, hopefully I will someday.

Woodblock Water Color Practices

     Drawing/ painting 2. These turned out well, but I left out the writing on the bird one. We had to practice replicating images from woodblocks to get used to the style for the final project which was a woodblock picture that incorporated something modern. I don't know where my final went, but it was a Mt. Fuji landscape with cranes and fog- I painted in a train for the modern part.

To Open Lift Seal And Tear

     Drawing/ painting 3 final project. Stencil, spay paint, acrylic paint. It started so well with the stencils, then I got to the right side and it just turned into blah. Thank you David, Darin, Juvi, Kelani, and Collin for letting me stencil you.

Lemur

     Yes, it is a lemur. Drawing/ painting 3 cubism project. I think I was a little too constructive with all the shapes, but I really like how it came out. It took a lot of time to shade each individual part. The background is somewhat down scaled compared to the lemur- I think I would do more shading if I could redo it.

Pipe Blow Out

     Directive studies project. Stencil, spray paint, acrylic paint and ink. I had fun with this project. I liked making the face and using a straw to blow paint across the canvas although it was quite tiring. I originally planned to paint hands on the instrument, but ran out of time and opted to leave them out.

If You Knew Me

     Expressionism project for drawing/ painting 3. I kept bouncing from one idea to another for this. I think I spent more time on the smoky swirly things in the background than anything and could have done better with the anatomy of the girl. The body looks a bit weird.

Tortoise

     Another sketchbook for either drawing/ painting 1 or 2.

Bag and Shoes

     Drawing/ painting 1 sketch book project. I still didn't understand that there were different types of pencils at that time and ended up doing the whole thing with an HB pencil. I think this is good for one of my first sketchbooks, but if you've seen the actual bag I used for the subject matter, then you'd notice a glaring mistake- the bag is black. I don't know how I drew it as an entirely different shade, but it worked somehow.

Seeing Music

     Directive studies project- acrylic paint, color pencil, ink, and water color. This project was such a disaster. It started out pretty well and I had a few ideas that I knew I wanted to incorporate like the gold fish plant and music box, but the execution got sloppy. I think there's just a few too many random things on it. Stop looking at it.

Skater

     This was done a few years ago, I think for drawing/painting 1 or 2. It's an ink painting of speed skater Krysia (original photo taken by Ted Szukalski). I was so thrilled at how well it turned out especially after running into a few problems while working on it. For instance, while I was painting in the faint shadow on the ice, I accidentally dropped a dark splotch of ink. I tried water it out which kinda helped, but it was still too dark. I then resorted to white ink to cover it up, but the white ink was whiter than the paper, so I painted in all the ice with white ink.

Willow

     Directive studies project. Acrylic painting on paper board thing. I wanted to do something different so I tried to use a softer palette of pastel colors this time. The tree is a bit squished up at the top, but I think it alright overall. I can't remember why I even chose to do this- maybe just to experiment.